From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 8 10: 1:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F288A37B513 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:01:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id D64AB124E5; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 19:01:32 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000308163903.A43245@freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20000308163903.A43245@freebsd-uk.eu.org> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:54:05 +0100 To: J McKitrick , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: merger and codebase Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 4:39 PM +0000 2000/3/8, J McKitrick wrote: > Just *how* different is BSD/OS from FreeBSD under the hood? > Does BSD/OS support kernel threads and/or SMP well? One of the things that Jordan mentioned at the kickoff meeting for the Netherlands FreeBSD User Group (NLFUG) this past weekend (where he actually made the first unofficial announcement, but we had to keep a lid on things until the official announcement had gone out) was that BSD/OS has a superior SMP implementation (with fine-grained locking) and that this was one of the things they were really looking forward to incorporating into FreeBSD. I don't recall whether he specifically mentioned how they handle threading. You weren't at the NLFUG meeting? I sent e-mail on the subject to the freebsd-users@freebsd-uk.eu.org mailing list on Friday about this (asking whether anyone else was going), with a pointer to the agenda, etc.... I know that was really late for anyone to change their plans, but you should have at least seen the note. -- These are my opinions and should not be taken as official Skynet policy ========================================================================= Brad Knowles, Sys. Arch., Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin Note: No Microsoft programs were used in the creation or distribution of this message. If you are using a Microsoft program to view this message, be forewarned that I am not responsible for any harm you may encounter as a result. See for details. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message